Ternary complex formation between AmtB, GlnZ and the nitrogenase regulatory enzyme DraG reveals a novel facet of nitrogen regulation in bacteria.

abstract：:Full virulence of Yersinia enterocolitica Biovar 1B requires two distinct and distantly related contact-dependent type III secretion (T3S) systems. The plasmid-encoded Ysc T3S system is essential for systemic stages of infection and the Yop effector proteins it translocates have been extensively studied. The chromosom...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Matsumoto H,Young GM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper ions are essential but also very toxic. Copper resistance in bacteria is based on export of the toxic ion, oxidation from Cu(I) to Cu(II), and sequestration by copper-binding metal chaperones, which deliver copper ions to efflux systems or metal-binding sites of copper-requiring proteins. In their publication i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nies DH,Herzberg M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among players in neurobiology, ion channels are the demigods that underlie all our senses, behaviour and intelligence. In animals, these 'gated pores' detect ligands, voltage, heat or stretch forces and emit electric or ionic signals. Patch clamp and genome sequencing now show that nearly all microbes also have these ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kung C,Blount P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface of Trypanosoma brucei is covered by a dense coat of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoproteins. The major component is the variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) which is glycosylated by both paucimannose and oligomannose N-glycans. Surface glycans are poorly accessible and killing mediated by peptide...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Castillo-Acosta VM,Vidal AE,Ruiz-Pérez LM,Van Damme EJ,Igarashi Y,Balzarini J,González-Pacanowska D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid metabolism in Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, differs from its human host in several fundamental ways. This has lead to the validation of a plethora of novel drug targets, giving hope of novel chemical intervention against this neglected disease. Cytidine diphosphate diacylg...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lilley AC,Major L,Young S,Stark MJ,Smith TK

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli rpsD12 allele, which reduces translational fidelity and elevates expression of heat shock protein (Hsp) genes, only enhanced Hsp gene expression in the presence of oxygen. Similarly, the rpsL141 allele, which reduces mistranslation and Hsp gene expression, failed to affect the Hsp regulon in cells...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fredriksson A,Ballesteros M,Dukan S,Nyström T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structures of two active forms of dissimilatory sulphite reductase (Dsr) from Desulfovibrio gigas, Dsr-I and Dsr-II, are compared at 1.76 and 2.05 Å resolution respectively. The dimeric α2β2γ2 structure of Dsr-I contains eight [4Fe-4S] clusters, two saddle-shaped sirohaems and two flat sirohydrochlorins. I...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hsieh YC,Liu MY,Wang VC,Chiang YL,Liu EH,Wu WG,Chan SI,Chen CJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi survives in an enzootic cycle, and Dps proteins protect DNA against damage during starvation or oxidative stress. The role of a Dps homologue encoded by Borrelia in spirochaete survival was assessed. Dps-deficient spirochaetes were infectious in mice via needle-inoculation at the dose of 10(5) spi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Li X,Pal U,Ramamoorthi N,Liu X,Desrosiers DC,Eggers CH,Anderson JF,Radolf JD,Fikrig E

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistant (MDR) strains of Acinetobacter baumannii present a serious clinical challenge. The development of antibiotic resistance in this species is enabled by efflux pumps of the Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) superfamily of proteins creating an efficient permeability barrier for antibiotics. At least...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Leus IV,Adamiak J,Trinh AN,Smith RD,Smith L,Richardson S,Ernst RK,Zgurskaya HI

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of insertional mutagenesis for naturally transformable organisms has been adapted from Haemophilus influenzae and applied to the study of the pathogenesis of Campylobacter jejuni. A series of kanamycin-resistant insertional mutants of C. jejuni 81-176 has been generated and screened for loss of ability to inv...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yao R,Burr DH,Doig P,Trust TJ,Niu H,Guerry P

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellar genes of Caulobacter crescentus are expressed under cell-cycle control. Expression is regulated by both flagellar assembly cues and cell-cycle events. In this paper we define the sequences required for the expression of the flgF operon, a new class of sigma 54 flagellar promoter. This promoter type is ex...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Marques MV,Gober JW

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational modifications account for much of the biological diversity generated at the proteome level. Of these, glycosylation is the most prevalent. Long thought to be unique to Eukarya, it is now clear that both Bacteria and Archaea are also capable of N-glycosylation, namely the covalent linkage of oligosac...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yurist-Doutsch S,Chaban B,VanDyke DJ,Jarrell KF,Eichler J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 expresses four different FtsH protease subunits (FtsH1-4) that assemble into specific homo- and heterocomplexes. The FtsH2/FtsH3 complex is involved in photoprotection but the physiological roles of the other complexes, notably the essential FtsH1/FtsH3 complex, remain unc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Krynická V,Tichý M,Krafl J,Yu J,Kaňa R,Boehm M,Nixon PJ,Komenda J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anammox bacteria exhibit remarkable and characteristic metabolic features that enable them to oxidize ammonium under anoxic conditions. Their ultrastructure is complex, with three compartments, comprising paryphoplasm, the riboplasm and the anammoxosome. The latter is surrounded by ladderane lipids, creating a lipid-s...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rachel R

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus lactis NCDO763 harbours a plasmid designated pLP763. The cells harbouring pLP763 are able to grow to a higher density in milk because of their proteinase-positive phenotype (Prt+). The 6.2 kb HindIII-PstI fragment from pLP763 was found to be responsible for the Prt+ phenotype. The DNA fragment contains a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kiwaki M,Ikemura H,Shimizu-Kadota M,Hirashima A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase, discovered in 1970 in retroviruses, has until recently been found only in eukaryotic organisms. Recently it was shown to occur in two groups of bacteria: myxobacteria and Escherichia coli. The gene for reverse transcriptase is part of a chromosomal genetic element that codes for the production o...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lim D,Maas WK

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of stalled ribosomes at the 3' end of mRNA without a stop codon (non-stop mRNA) is supposed to be toxic to bacterial cells. Escherichia coli has at least two distinct systems to rescue such stalled ribosomes: SsrA-dependent trans-translation and ArfA-dependent ribosome rescue. Combination of the ssrA and ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chadani Y,Ono K,Kutsukake K,Abo T

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria survive harmful environmental stressors by modifying their outer membrane. Much of this protection is afforded upon remodeling of the lipid A region of the major surface molecule lipopolysaccharide (LPS). For example, the addition of cationic substituents, such as 4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose (L-...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nowicki EM,O'Brien JP,Brodbelt JS,Trent MS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ferric uptake regulator (Fur) protein is known to act as a Fe2+-dependent transcriptional repressor of bacterial promoters. Here, we show that, in Helicobacter pylori, Fur can mediate the regulation of iron-activated genes in contrast to classical Fur regulation, in which iron acts as a co-repressor. Inactivation ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Delany I,Spohn G,Rappuoli R,Scarlato V

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coli surface antigen 6 (CS6) is a widely expressed enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) colonization factor that mediates bacterial attachment to the small intestinal epithelium. CS6 is a polymer of two protein subunits CssA and CssB, which are secreted and assembled on the cell surface via the CssC/CssD chaperone ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roy SP,Rahman MM,Yu XD,Tuittila M,Knight SD,Zavialov AV

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilus influenzae is a human-specific pathogen and a major source of morbidity worldwide. Infection with this organism begins with colonization of the nasopharynx, a process that probably depends on adherence to respiratory epithelium. The Hia autotransporter protein is the major adhesin ex-pressed by a subset of...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Laarmann S,Cutter D,Juehne T,Barenkamp SJ,St Geme JW

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of the biofilm architecture is the presence of microcolonies. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms governing microcolony formation. In the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, microcolony formation is dependent on the two-component regulator MifR, with mifR mutant biofilms exhibiting an over...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Petrova OE,Schurr JR,Schurr MJ,Sauer K

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rifampicin resistance, a defining attribute of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, is conferred by mutations in the β subunit of RNA polymerase. Sequencing of rifampicin-resistant (RIF-R) clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed, in addition to RIF-R mutations, enrichment of potential compensatory mutati...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Song T,Park Y,Shamputa IC,Seo S,Lee SY,Jeon HS,Choi H,Lee M,Glynne RJ,Barnes SW,Walker JR,Batalov S,Yusim K,Feng S,Tung CS,Theiler J,Via LE,Boshoff HI,Murakami KS,Korber B,Barry CE 3rd,Cho SN

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show in this work that disruption of the hfq gene in Escherichia coli causes a large increase in IS10 transposition when IS10 is present on a multi-copy plasmid. Hfq is an RNA-binding protein that regulates the expression of a large number of genes at the post-transcriptional level by promoting the pairing of mRNAs...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ross JA,Wardle SJ,Haniford DB

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression from the Escherichia coli nrf operon promoter is activated by the anaerobically triggered transcription factor, FNR, and by the nitrate/nitrite ion-controlled response regulators, NarL or NarP, but is repressed by the IHF and Fis proteins. Here, we present in vitro studies on the nrf promoter, using permang...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Browning DF,Grainger DC,Beatty CM,Wolfe AJ,Cole JA,Busby SJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TonB system of Escherichia coli (TonB/ExbB/ExbD) transduces the protonmotive force (pmf) of the cytoplasmic membrane to drive active transport by high-affinity outer membrane transporters. In this study, chromosomally encoded ExbD formed formaldehyde-linked complexes with TonB, ExbB and itself (homodimers) in vivo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ollis AA,Manning M,Held KG,Postle K

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of H. influenzae is highly variable. Much of the structural diversity is derived from phase variation, or high frequency on-off switching, of molecules attached during LPS biosynthesis. In this study, we examined the dynamics of LPS phase variation following exposure to human serum as a so...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Clark SE,Eichelberger KR,Weiser JN

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a gene encoding a polygalacturonase (PG) in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger RH5344. The structural gene comprises 1141 bp coding for 362 amino acids and the open reading frame is disrupted by one intron of 52 bp. Eukaryotic consensus sequences for transcription regulation are found only in devi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ruttkowski E,Khanh NQ,Wientjes FJ,Gottschalk M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor Rex has been implicated in regulation of the expression of genes important for fermentative growth and for growth under conditions of low oxygen tension in several Gram-positive bacteria. Rex senses the redox poise of the cell through changes in the NADH/NAD(+) ratio. The crystal structures of...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang E,Bauer MC,Rogstam A,Linse S,Logan DT,von Wachenfeldt C

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 20 strains of Helicobacter pylori from several regions of the world was studied to better understand the population genetic structure and diversity of this species. Sequences of fragments from seven housekeeping genes (atpA, efp, mutY, ppa, trpC, ureI, yphC ) and two virulence-associated genes (cagA, v...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Achtman M,Azuma T,Berg DE,Ito Y,Morelli G,Pan ZJ,Suerbaum S,Thompson SA,van der Ende A,van Doorn LJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00